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Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) says it is negotiating with the Namibia Football Association (NFA) to see how best it can get value for money after the expiration of its sponsorship deal in June 2023. NBL says it does not make business sense for the company to support the national soccer team without local games in […]

Millions of voters are casting their ballots in the UK’s first July general election since 1945. Polling stations, set up in buildings like local schools and community halls, are open between 07:00 and 22:00 BST on Thursday. Around 46 million voters are eligible to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons. The […]

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi says the communal land allocated to the /Khomanin community should not be less than 30 000 hectares. Swartbooi made these remarks in parliament on Wednesday, while pledging his support for the government’s decision to allocate communal land to the Khomanin community in the Khomas region. According to Swartbooi, […]

Katutura Residents Committee spokesperson Shaun Gariseb has thanked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for cancelling the planned electricity tariff hike. Electricity Control Board (ECB) chief executive Robert Kahimise recently announced that the 8% electricity tariff increase planned effective 1 July was cancelled after the government made N$365 million available to subsidise consumers’ electricity costs […]

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Workers of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency (Nida) yesterday went on strike to demand salary increments and better working conditions. The workers alleged the organisation has the funds available to hire new management, but fails to increase workers’ salaries. The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) yesterday on behalf of the workers said they […]

Chief justice Peter Shivute has paid tribute to former Zambian chief justice Annel Silungwe, who also served as a judge of Namibia’s High Court, following his death on Sunday. Silungwe died at the age of 88 after a period of illness, Shivute said in a statement issued by the Office of the Judiciary on Tuesday. […]

One of the men charged in the second Caprivi high treason trial, Diamond Samunzala Salufu, has died after more than 20 years in jail. Salufu died on Thursday last week at Katutura Intermediate Hospital in Windhoek, lawyer Ilse Agenbach confirmed yesterday. Salufu was 74 years old. He had been in ill health since last year […]

The Namibian authorities arrested 654 people linked to 389 wildlife-crime cases registered in the country last year. This is according to a 2023 national report on wildlife protection and law enforcement in Namibia completed by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism.  The report shows that 96 wildlife-crime court cases were finalised. Twelve cases involving […]

Residents of Khomasdal in Windhoek were left in shock on Wednesday morning upon discovering the body of an unidentified man on top of a NamPower electricity pole. Police chief inspector Katrina Naukushu has confirmed the incident. She said the man was discovered by a passer-by at around 07h00, who then alerted the police. Police investigations […]